Chicago Booth's premiere program for change leadership equips you to create the future of your organization. Today’s senior leaders must guide the successful implementation of new, more effective strategies while promoting the drive, morale, commitment, agility, initiative, and vision of their people.

Through lectures, discussions, small group interaction, and numerous hands-on activities, we connect state-of-the-art, research-based concepts and principles to best practices in leading change and innovation. The atmosphere is active and open—sometimes even playful. The program attracts participants from a wide array of functions, industries, and countries. We draw on the group’s collective experiences as well as on case studies from a variety of sources and media, covering a broad range of leadership challenges. Each day of the program, you apply the tools and concepts learned in the program to a real organizational change case of your own and consult with fellow participants to prepare for the challenges ahead.

By attending this program, you will:

Build organizational agility

Manage up, down, and sideways

Move from competing agendas to organizational alignment

Win hearts and minds to the efforts ahead

Drive creativity and flexibility in problem solving

Guide people through the complexities of change

Leverage dilemmas to strengthen organizational strategy

Lead your organization to seize new opportunities

Anchor your plan of action to the real-world business challenges you are facing

Joshua Klayman

Joshua Klayman is an internationally-known expert in managerial psychology. He has been a member of the faculty at Chicago Booth since 1980. He is also co-owner, with Jackie Gnepp, of the consulting firm Humanly Possible, Inc. His primary research, teaching, and consulting interests are in understanding and improving people’s ability to make sound decisions, to learn and improve, to think creatively, and to embrace change.

Jackie Gnepp

President, Humanly Possible®, Inc.

Jackie Gnepp is a licensed consulting psychologist and president of Humanly Possible, Inc., a boutique firm offering organizational consulting, leadership education, and executive coaching. Dr. Gnepp has authored or co-authored over 60 articles, book chapters, and presentations on people management, emotional intelligence, and performance improvement. Her leadership presentations have been highly acclaimed in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

This class, without a doubt, was the most beneficial of any I’ve taken. The balance of theory and application was tremendous. The entire class was engaging and informative. This is a must take for any leader!

- Amy Ohde, Sr. Director, Field Development, Chick-fil-A

The whole course content is excellent. Content was well supported with numerous and insightful resources and very practical and easy to apply tools. This course gave me concrete tools to take back home and apply immediately, and substantial new knowledge.

I found the course very useful in helping me to gain a better understanding of the issues that must be considered and addressed when implementing change and innovation. I feel I now have the skills needed to go back and implement my own change project in a way that will have the greatest chance to succeed.

This program is targeted to senior executives endeavoring to guide and catalyze significant and sustainable change. If you are in the midst of, or about to initiate, important changes to processes, strategies, structures, or culture, this program is for you.

The program is especially recommended for leaders who are looking for new ideas, eager to engage with fellow participants in discussion, consultation, and experiential exercises, and committed to implementing an action plan for change in their business, non-profit, or governmental organization.